Ken (stylized in all lowercase) is the eleventh studio album from Destroyer, released on October 20, 2017 by Merge Records. Destroyer announced the album on August 8, 2017, including the release of the first song from the album, "Sky's Grey," by way of a lyric video posted to YouTube. The album's release date, track list, and artwork were announced the same day. The album was shortlisted for the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019.
ken isn't a nostalgic album. The album is murky and claustrophobic but still consistently melodic.
It makes sense, then, that ken, Destroyer’s first new release since 2015’s Poison Season, contains lessons, both musical and spiritual, about how history repeats itself-all the ways in which we are destined (or doomed) to fulfill old prophecies. Bejar named ken after the working title of Suede’s The Wild Ones, a tense and thrilling ballad first released in 1994 ( Oh, if you stay/We’ll be the wild ones, running with the dogs today, Brett Anderson sings). The Wild Ones is a sad and wistful song about wishing someone wasn’t about to leave you; on it, Anderson sounds both imploring and lost.
The album title is stylized consistently in all lower case. Destroyer (4). ken (LP, Album).
Destroyer – ken. Dan Bejar continues to muse on magnificent glories and tragic shortcomings. The most freeing - and to some, confounding - thing about the music of Destroyer, the decades-long personal project of The New Pornographers’ Dan Bejar, is how inscrutable it can be. Bejar is known for his mighty intellect and what could be called a disinterest in hand-holding. Like most of Destroyer’s output, ken isn’t an album about something.
Released October 20, 2017. 1. Sky's Grey Lyrics. ken was produced by Black Mountain’s Josh Wells, who has drummed for Destroyer since 2012. The deluxe version of ken, includes a bonus 7 single with acoustic versions of 2 tracks. Producers Josh Wells. More Destroyer albums. Show all albums by Destroyer.
ken by Destroyer, released 20 October 2017 1. Sky’s Grey 2. In the Morning 3. Tinseltown Swimming in Blood 4. Cover From the Sun 5. Saw You at the Hospital 6. A Light Travels Down the Catwalk 7. Rome 8. Sometimes in the World 9. Ivory Coast 10. Stay Lost 11. La Regle du Je. Dan Bejar started Destroyer as a solo home-recording project in the early to mid-nineties. Exploring and overturning genres such as glam, MIDI, yacht rock, & even underground Spanish independent artists, Bejar was proclaimed Rock’s Exiled King by The Fader. ken (Deluxe Version).
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